January

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 — Donald L. Rosenstein, M.D., will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as director of the new UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 — For years, research has hinted that the time of day that cancer patients receive chemotherapy can impact their chances of survival. But the lack of a clear scientific explanation for this finding has kept clinicians from considering timing as a factor in treatment.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 — A new study has found that babies delivered by elective Caesarean section before 39 weeks of pregnancy, to mothers who previously had an elective C-section, are much more likely to have serious health problems than newborns delivered under the same circumstances at 39 weeks.